Comments on: JD Salinger and Westport — The Sequel

By: Curtis C. Smith

Curtis C. Smith — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:24:59 +0000

This is to Garry Meyers. You mention Wyatt Teubert, Jr., as an instructor in Westport. I believe he later moved to New Canaan Schools, where I had him as an instructor in English. I remember him as very much the iconoclast. Does anyone else remember him?

By: Tyler Rackliffe

Tyler Rackliffe — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:04:35 +0000

Read this in the NYT on the train tonight…thought you’d find it interesting if you didn’t already hear about it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/books/12salinger.html?scp=3&sq=j.d%20salinger&st=cse

By: Mr. Oatmeal

Mr. Oatmeal — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:24:44 +0000

This is a true story about JD Salinger. It will have no names mentioned not even mine because I don’t want to open my shades in the morning and find a lot of people looking in my windows. When I was about 17 and going to Staples I dated, for awhile, a beautiful girl who had long blond hair, lively blue eyes and big red lips. She was kind and sweet and honest. On a date one night, for a reason I can’t remember she told me the following; When she was a little girl she used to play in her back yard. Next door was a man who sometimes sat at his picnic table and typed. They got to be friends and would talk together about whatever , sometimes she would sing for him. Later , when Catcher was published she somehow knew the character Phoebe was her. I don’t know how she knew. Did Salinger tell her? Did she just recognize herself? Is the story true? She had long blond hair, lively blue eyes and big red lips. She was kind and sweet and honest and I believe her. I also have an interest in this because off and on for years I have been telling people I dated Holden Caulfield’s little sister in high school.